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Are They Trying to Look Like Evil Bastards?

March 26th, 2007

The RIAA strikes again. They are suing a 42-year-old disabled single mother who lives off of her Social Security check while raising her 10-year-old daughter. They are suing her for $1 million for downloading, among other things, Gangsta Rap at 4:24 in the morning on KaZaA.

The poor woman says that she doesn’t even know how to download music, and has tried to surrender her PC to the RIAA so they can search it for themselves. The RIAA declined, and instead is now demanding that her 10-year-old daughter, 7 years old at the time of the downloading (and even less liable to have been up before dawn downloading Gangsta Rap), be deposed and put on the stand.

Details of the case are here. I almost didn’t comment on this one because I thought it was the same case as one I reported on a few weeks ago–but that one was where the RIAA sued a paralyzed stroke victim, living on disability in Florida, for downloading music in Michigan. I thought it might have been another case I sub-referenced in that same post about a grandmother being sued for downloading rap music on KaZaA when she used a Mac which couldn’t run KaZaA.

But no, it was neither of those. It was all-new unmitigated vileness from the sweethearts at the RIAA, as part of their overall attempt to use shotgun litigation to extort money from people.

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